PHP strotime - String to Date - wrong date result

Question

When I try to convert very high dates, such as 2045-01-01, I get another date:

date("Ymd", strtotime("2045-02-15"));

I obtain a wrong date

19700101

but when

date("Ymd", strtotime("2017-02-15"));

I have the good date

20170215

I don't understand why? Someone just explain to me what's going on?

Have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5319710/accessing-dates-in-php-beyond-2038 — Chris, Nov 07 '17 at 14:39
A: you've been hit with the 2038 bug. Edit: `$date = date("Ymd", strtotime("2037-02-15"));` this works, and this fails `$date = date("Ymd", strtotime("2038-02-15"));` — Funk Forty Niner, Nov 07 '17 at 14:42
`11111111111111111111111111111111` becomes `00000000000000000000000000000000` -> 1970-01-01 — Andreas, Nov 07 '17 at 14:50

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 07 '17 at 14:42

date_parse("2006-12-12 10:00:00");
date_parse_from_format ( 'Ymd' , "2017-02-15" );

or

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', "2017-02-15");
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');

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